Lenski's Little Sailboat Teaches Nautical Vocabulary, Other Class-Appropriate Lessons

Maybe I wouldn't have been so conscious of the hyper-WASPy presumptuousness of Lois Lenski's The Little Sailboat if I hadn't been reading Policeman Small so often. But when we went to the library today, and the kid plopped down...
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Braniff Blanket By Alexander Girard

Airlines weren't always teh suck. To hear about it now, Braniff seems like a groovalicious disco paradise in the air. But then again, those geezers from Studio 54 act like it was the greatest thing before or since, too...
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FAA: No Airline CARES, So Now Parents Can Buy Carseat Replacement Themselves

Plane travel with a kid is set to get easier, and by "easier," I mean "$80 more expensive and now involves checked car seats instead of carried ones." A while back, the FAA approved the use of seatbelt-supplementing harnesses as...
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Ausgezeichn--Eh. Mercedes CLS 4-Door Coupe Wagon

My uncle used to get a new Porsche 911 every year, which is why I wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon when I was a growing up. It's also why I never could forgive someone for putting a slant-nose...
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[How] Do You Write About Other People's Kids?

So we had the first event for the kid's little class at pre-school last night, a playdate at the school playground, and it went pretty well. {Except that while rushing to cut grape clusters while taking a meeting on the...
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